Tall Louis XV-period floor-standing regulator (circa 1745),
 signed on the dial and on the backplate Gosselin à Paris.
Main dial with enamel cartouches with blue Roman numerals,
 indicating hours and minutes, the two subsidiary dials
indicating the seconds and the day of the month.
Three-train movement with 8 pillars, the movement powered by weight
and counterweight hung with ropes in the Huyghens fashion,
the quarter strike on two bells and the hour strike
on another bell powered by mainsprings in barrels.
This clever arrangement allows for excellent timekeeping
and long duration during between windings (26 days), the quarters striking four times an hour.
Hour- and quarter-strike are controlled by finely engraved independent countwheels.
Ormolu dial with enamel cartouches, the lower one bearing the signature.
Two gilt muses ornate the lower part, possibly representing
Faith and Charity, with the silvered calendar dial between them.
Very finely carved three-part oak case, with the three
original bevelled glasses in the hood.
Both mainsprings signed and dated "Masson, May 1744",
 from Pierre Masson, one of the great Paris spring makers.
Height 260cm

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Eighteenth-Century Louis XVI precision regulator with one-month duration.
Oak and mahogany veneered top and side panels, the rear panel a single massive
mahogany board. Stamp on the case by Jean-Baptiste Lependu,
chased and gilt floral bronze ornaments, gilt and engine-turned bezel with bead pattern,
glazed on three sides, rising base and hood. Domed enamel dial, simply signed Salneuve.
Five concentric hands: the dates and day of the week in blued steel, the hours and minutes
with finely cut, pierced and engraved gilt hands, and the centre sweeping seconds in blued steel.
Rectangular-shaped brass movement with 4 massive pillars, unusually signed on the backplate:
"Sine Minimo Artis Tirocinio / Fecit Frus Salneuve / 1786"
Weight driven movement in the Huygens fashion with weight and counterweight hanging on pulleys
with and endless solid linen rope, Graham dead-beat escapement with fine adjusting device,
compensation gridiron pendulum with knife edge suspension on a gimbal, and temperature indication.
Dial diameter 28cm, width 46cm, height 207cm

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19th century floorstanding mahogany regulator, circa 1840,
with unusual tri-coloured dial and Ritchie's compensation to
the pendulum, signed Hurt & Wray, Birmingham.
Gothic-inspired case with lancet top over brass inlays of quatrefoils
over a lancet topped glazed trunk door to a panel base to a plinth
and bracket feet.
12" circular silvered dial with concentric minute hand and red digits,
enclosing subsidiaries for running seconds (in green) and Roman
hours (in yellow), signed in red upper case lettering across the dial
centre, the weight driven movement with substantial shouldered
plates united by five cannon-barrel pillars, with maintaining power
and high-count pinions, endstones on both sides of every arbor,
the deadbeat escapement with jewelled
pallets and long crutch to a pendulum with steel rod split by two
horizontal bi-metallic bars and central spring section screwed to the
main rod and also the lozenge section to take the weight of the large
heavy brass-faced bob and graduated rating nut, the small brass
weight suspended on a caged pulley.
Weekly winding with original winding key,
precision with an error of less than 3 seconds a month.
Height 206cm (6' 11")

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